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SPEAKABLE Co-located with LREC2026: 2nd CFP
by Davide LIGA 31 Dec '25

31 Dec '25

***APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING*** 2nd CfP: SPEAKABLE 2026 [??]Location: Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain) [??] Website: https://speakable-2026.github.io/ We are pleased to announce the upcoming full-day SPEAKABLE 2026 Workshop on Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis, co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca. This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts working to advance speech technology for under-resourced languages. We invite contributions that address the unique challenges and opportunities in this space. Workshop Topics of Interest We encourage submissions on (but not limited to): - Performance of speech language models in low-resource and underrepresented languages - Evaluation methodologies and creation of benchmarks for low-resource speech - Bias analysis, detection, and mitigation strategies in speech technologies - Real-world applications, deployment challenges, and case studies - Speech recognition, speech-to-text, language modeling, multilingual and cross-lingual approaches - Fairness, ethical considerations, and inclusive NLP for low-resource speech communities - Parameter-efficient adaptation methods and knowledge distillation for speech models - Edge-constrained inference and computational efficiency in low-resource settings --> SPEAKABLE will only accept direct submissions through the given Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/<https://softconf.com/lrec2026/SPEAKABLE2026/login/scmd.cgi?scmd=logout> Invited Speaker Dr. Jordi Luque (Lead Research Scientist, Telefónica Research): https://eloquenceai.eu/imprint/ Further details will be posted on the workshop website. Info for Papers We welcome original research papers and ongoing work relevant to speech and language modeling for low-resource settings. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages in length and follow the LREC 2026 stylesheet. Submissions should follow LREC formatting guidelines (https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/). The maximum number of pages excludes potential Ethics Statements and discussion on Limitations, acknowledgements, and references, as well as data and code availability statements. Appendices or supplementary material are not permitted during the initial submission phase, as papers should be self-contained and reviewable on their own. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Papers must be of original, previously unpublished work. All submissions should follow the two-column LREC style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX/Overleaf style files. All papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop chairs. Submissions that violate the requirements above will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will be presented as oral or poster presentations. The mode of presentation will be determined by the workshop chairs and does not reflect the quality of the submission. SPEAKABLE 2026 will primarily be an in-person event, but online participation will also be possible for participants who cannot travel to the conference. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: February 16, 2026 Notification of Acceptance: March 12, 2026 Camera-Ready Papers: March 30, 2026 Workshop Date: May 2026 (11/05/2026) All deadlines are anywhere-on-earth (AoE). Workshop Organizers Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Alessio Brutti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Marco Matassoni (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Sandipana Dowerah (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia) Davide Liga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Christoph Schommer (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) [??] Learn more and submit: https://speakable-2026.github.io/ For questions, contact: speakable2026(a)gmail.com<mailto:speakable2026@gmail.com> Best regards, Davide Liga (on behalf of the organizers)

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3rd CFP: International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
by Constantin Orasan 31 Dec '25

31 Dec '25

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-27 June 2026 Third Call for Papers # The conference The third edition of the International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 24 to 27 June 2026. The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation and interpreting studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTIT’2026 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures. The conference will include plenary presentations (research and user presentations, keynote speeches), poster sessions and panel discussions. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by experts, and the accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e- proceedings which will be available at the time of the conference. # Conference topics Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in translation, subtitling, localisation, interpreting, machine translation and Large Language Models used in translation and interpreting. NeTTIT’2026 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI". The conference topics include but are not limited to (see also the special conference theme below): ## CAT tools - Translation Memory (TM) systems - NLP and MT for translation memory systems - Terminology extraction tools - Localisation tools ## Machine Translation - Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation - MT for under-resourced languages - MT with low computing resources - Multimodal MT - Integration of MT in TM systems - Resources for MT ## Technologies for MT deployment - MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results - Human evaluations of MT output - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting - Quality estimation for MT - Domain adaptation ## Translation Studies - Corpus-based studies applied to translation - Corpora and resources for translation - Translationese - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation ## Interpreting studies - Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting - Corpora and resources for interpreting - Interpretese - Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting ## Interpreting technology - Machine interpreting - Computer-aided interpreting - NLP for dialogue interpreting - Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services) ## Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting - MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts - MT for social media and real-time conversations - Sign language recognition and translation ## Subtitling - NLP and MT for subtitling - Latest technology for subtitling ## User needs - Analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology - User requirements for interpreting and translation tools - Incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology - What existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer - User requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters - Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed ## The business of translation and interpreting - Translation workflow and management - Technology adoption by translators and industry - Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider company ## Teaching translation and interpreting - Teaching Machine Translation - Teaching translation technology - Teaching interpreting technology - Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula ## Ethical issues in translation and technology - Bias and fairness in MT - Privacy and security in cloud MT systems - Transparency and explainability of MT systems - Environmental impact on MT systems # Special Theme Track - Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NeTTIT’2026 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency. The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks and applications, and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: - Changes in (and the impact on) the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new AI era especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMs and Generative AI - Generative AI and translation - Generative AI and interpreting - Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI - Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models - Literary translation with Large Language Models - Translation for low-resourced and minority languages with LLMs - Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models - Prompt engineering for translation - Generative AI for professional translation - Generative AI for professional interpreting # Invited speaker Yves Champollion, Wordfast LLC (more names will be announced in future calls) # Submissions and publication NeTTIT’2026 invites the following types of submissions in English: ## Academic papers - Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. - Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, work-in-progress, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. ## User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 2 and 4 pages. Submission link – Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nettit2026/user/ The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Further details on the submission procedure will be made available on the conference website. The accepted papers will be published in the conference e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI and made available online on the conference website at the time of the conference. # Important dates - Submissions due: 23 March 2026 - Reviewing process: 25 March-25 April 2026 - Notification of acceptance: 28 April 2026 - Camera-ready due: 25 May 2026 - Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 15 June 2026 - Conference: 24-27 June 2026 # Conference Chairs - Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) - Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante) - Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb) # Programme Committee Chairs - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) # Publication Chairs - Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain) - Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante, Spain) # Publicity and Sponsorship Chair - Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) # Programme committee - Khetam Al Sharou, Dublin City University, Ireland - Lama Al-oqili, University of Liverpool, UK - Abdelalah Alsolami, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Silvia Bernardini, University of Bologna, Italy - Alba Bonet Jover, University of Alicante, Spain - Pierrette Bouillon, University of Geneve, Switzerland - Vicent Briva-Iglesias, Dublin City University, Ireland - Elena Calzada, ONCALL Language Services, London and Madrid Open University, Spain - Parthena Charalampidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Helle Dam Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark - Anna Beatriz Dimas Furtado, University of Galway - Michael Farrell, University Institute of Modern Languages, Italy - Maria Fernandez-Parra, Swansea University, UK - Ɫukasz Grabowski, University of Opole, Poland - Manuel Herranz , Pangeanic, Spain - Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK - Kristian Hvelplund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Miguel A Jimenez Crespo, Rutgers University, USA - Valentini Kalfadopoulou, Ionian University, Greece - Dorothy Kenny, Dublin City University, Ireland - Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski , Hildesheim University, Germany - Raquel Lazaro Gutierrez, Alcalá University, Spain - Todor Lazarov, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria - Defeng Li, University of Macau, Macau - Elpida Loupaki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Elizabeth Marshman, Ottawa University, Canada - Khadidja Merakchi, Heriot Watt University, UK - Judyta Mężyk, University of Silesia, Poland - Núria Molines Galarza, Valencia University, Spain - Johanna Monti, Naples University, Italy - Ricardo Muñoz Martín, Bologna University, Italy - Jean Nitzke, University of Adger, Norway - Laura Noriega, University of Malaga, Spain - Lucas Nunes Vieira, Bristol University, UK - David Orrego-Carmona, Warwick University, UK - John E. Ortega, Northeastern University, USA - Timea Palotai-Torzsas, Juremy - Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK - Ming Qian, Charles River Analytics, USA - Rozane Rebechi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Natália Resende, Dublin City University, Ireland - Matt Riemland, Heriot-Watt University, UK - Serge Sharoff, Leeds University, UK - Mark Shuttleworth, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Elena Isabelle Tamba, Romanian Academy, Romania - Shiyi Tan, University of Surrey, UK - Irina Temnikova, "Big Data for Smart Society" Institute, Bulgaria - Eleni Tziafa, University of Athens, Greece - Cecilia Yalangozian, Machine Translate, USA - Han Xu , Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Sudhansu Bala Das, University of Galway, Ireland - Coco Xiaojing Zhao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Shuyin Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong # Venue The conference will take place at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) of the University of Zagreb (http://www.caas.unizg.hr/) in Dubrovnik. # Sponsorship opportunities Companies working in the fields of translation technology, interpreting technology and/or related fields, are welcome to familiarise themselves with the sponsorship opportunities that the conference offers. Please visit https://nettt-conference.com/2026/sponsors/ for more details. # Further information and contact details The conference website (https://nettt-conference.com/) will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nettit2026(a)nettt-conference.com. You can also follow us on social media for updates and announcements. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nettit2026/ Twitter/X - https://x.com/NeTTIT2026 --- Prof Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies | School of Literature and Languages Personal page: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/constantin-orasan Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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[2nd CfP] Workshop on AI and Semantic Technologies for Scientific, Technical, and Legal Web co-located with The Web Conference 2026 - Dubai
by ddessi＠sharjah.ac.ae 30 Dec '25

30 Dec '25

Call for Papers 4th Int. Workshop on AI and Semantic Technologies for Scientific, Technical, and Legal Web co-located with The Web Conference 2026 Workshop: April 13 or 14, 2026 - Dubai, UAE https://semtech4stld.github.io/ ----------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------- Abstract Submissions: January 5th, 2026 (1 week left!!) Paper Submissions: January 12th, 2026 Notifications: January 25th, 2026 Camera-Ready Contributions: February 2nd, 2026 Workshop: April 13 or 14, 2026 - Dubai, UAE All deadlines are 11:59 pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth). ------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Aims and Scope ------------------------------------------------------ The SemTech 2026 workshop focuses on methods that combine Semantic Web technologies, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models (LLMs), and other AI technologies to model knowledge across scientific, technical, and legal domains. The workshop invites research on knowledge graph creation, semantic annotation, LLM–KG hybrid reasoning, and trustworthy AI pipelines that enhance the reliability, interpretability, and reuse of Web data. This is particularly timely as the Web community seeks robust approaches to integrate symbolic and sub-symbolic methods for managing and understanding the growing body of domain-specific knowledge on the Web ------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Topics ------------------------------------------------------- We invite contributions on topics related to Semantic Web technologies and deep learning, particularly in the context of scientific, technical, and legal data. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Data Collection - Leveraging LLMs for generating scientific, technical, and legal data. - New tools and systems for capturing scientific, technical, and legal data, such as scientific articles, patent publications, etc. - Procedures and tools for storing, sharing, and preserving data on the Web. - Collecting and sharing data sets such as benchmarks, etc. - Pipelines and protocols to capture peculiarities from Web data. - Employing Semantic Web Technologies to represent and preserve sensitive data in terms of ethics, privacy, security, and trust on the Web. Novel Semantic Technologies for scientific, technical, and legal web: - Ontologies and annotation schemas to model such data. - Annotation, linking, and disambiguation of the data. - Knowledge graph construction. - LLMs to generate metadata, vocabularies, ontologies, and semantic models for specific data. Applications for patents, scientific, technical, and legal web: - Applications based on Generative AI and LLMs. - Exploiting knowledge graphs for document similarity, question answering, search, etc. - Semantic content-based retrieval. - Natural language processing techniques for classification, summarization, etc. - Exploratory search using semantic technologies on scientific, technical, and legal data. - Key enabling tools (also based on LLMs) for accessing and using data on the Web. - Lessons learned and use cases from both academia and industry around semantic models and LLMs for data in specific domains. ------------------------------------------------------- Submission Details ------------------------------------------------------- Formatting Requirements. Submissions must be written in English, in double-column format, and must adhere to the ACM template and format (also available in Overleaf). The review process will follow a single-blind protocol. Key Participation Requirement: At least one author per paper must be registered for the workshop, attend in person, and present their work. - Full Research Papers (6-8 pages maximum) should be clearly placed with respect to the state of the art and state the contribution of the proposal in the domain of application, even if presenting preliminary results. In particular, research papers should describe the methodology in detail, experiments should be repeatable, and a comparison with the existing approaches in the literature is encouraged. - Replicability/Reproducibility papers (4 pages) should involve repeating prior experiments using the source code and datasets to analyze existing methods and their limitations. Alternatively, authors may assess the robustness of previous work by applying the original code in new contexts, such as different domains or datasets. - Short Papers (4 pages) should describe significant novel work in progress. Compared to full papers, their contribution may be narrower in scope, be applied to a narrower set of application domains, or have weaker empirical support than that expected for a full paper. Submissions likely to generate discussions in new and emerging areas of legal data are encouraged. Submissions should not exceed the indicated number of pages, including any diagrams and references. PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION Papers accepted by the workshop will be included in the Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2026, which are archived in the ACM Digital Library, subject to meeting the ACM open-access, formatting guidelines, and camera-ready timeline as provided and observed by the ACM Web Conference. See the section Important update on ACM's new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences! on the conference website. --------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Chairs --------------------------------------------------------- Rima Dessi´ Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Hidir Aras FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany Jeenu Joy FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany Danilo Dessi´ Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Informatics, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE Francesco Osborne The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom ----------------------------------------------------------- Contacts ----------------------------------------------------------- For general inquiries on the workshop, please send an email to ddessi(a)sharjah.ac.ae

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Call for Papes - LPKM 2026 conference
by imen touati 29 Dec '25

29 Dec '25

📢 Call for Papers – LPKM 2026 | Sousse, Tunisia 🇹🇳 The ANLP Research Group (MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia) is pleased to announce the 4th International Conference on Language Processing and Knowledge Management (LPKM 2026), which will be held in Sousse, Tunisia, from May 5 to 7, 2026. 📍 Sousse, Tunisia 📅 May 5–7, 2026 LPKM 2026 provides an international forum to present cutting-edge research, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, and address emerging challenges in language processing, knowledge management, artificial intelligence, and intelligent systems. 🔬 Main Topics (non-exhaustive) 🧠 Artificial Intelligence & Data Science 🔹 AI & Intelligent Agents 🔹 Machine Learning 🔹 NLP & Large Language Models (LLMs) 🔹 Data Science & Knowledge Engineering 🔹 Computer Vision & Image Processing 🖥️ Systems, Software & Security 🔹 Systems and Computing 🔹 Information Systems 🔹 Software Engineering & Architecture 🔹 System and Software Security 🔹 Cloud Computing, IoT & Blockchain 📐 Theory & Formal Methods 🔹 Algorithms, Automata & Complexity 🔹 Logic, Semantics & Programming Theory 🔹 Static Analysis, Verification & Testing 🌍 Cross-Domain AI Applications 🔹 AI in Healthcare 🔹 AI in Auditing 🔹 AI in Taxation, Economics, and Management 🔹 AI in Finance and Financial Systems 🔹 AI in Fraud Detection and Risk Management 🔹 AI in Intelligent Automation 📝 Paper Submission 📄 PDF submission via CMT 👉 https://lnkd.in/emf9p-s8 🗣️ Language: English 📑 Max length: 10 pages (Springer LNCS format) ⏰ Important Dates 📌 Paper Submission Deadline: 15 January 2026 📌 Notification of Acceptance: 5 March 2026 📌 Camera-Ready Submission: 20 March 2026 📌 Conference Dates: 5–7 May 2026 🌐 Conference Website 👉 https://lnkd.in/dcKfHn9u 📧 Contact: lpkm2026(a)fsegs.u-sfax.tn ✨ We look forward to welcoming you to LPKM 2026! ✨ 🔁 Feel free to share with interested colleagues and research networks. ___________________________ _______________________________________Dr. Imen TouatiPhd in Computer sciences Email : ismi_touati(a)yahoo.frResearchGate: Imen TouatiSite Web : https://sites.google.com/site/imentozeur/DBLP : https://dblp.org/pid/167/4856.htmlORCID ID : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3470-3444 Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=THOtuH8AAAAJ&hl=fr Web of Science Researcher ID : HNS-9123-2023 Adresse : FSEGS, B.P. 1088,3018 Sfax, Tunisie_____________________________

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European Summer University in Digital Humanities 2026: Save the Dates!
by Elisabeth Burr 27 Dec '25

27 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, We’re excited to announce that the European Summer University in Digital Humanities will take place at Université Marie-et-Louis-Pasteur, Besançon, from July 6 to July 18, 2026! Each year this intensive two-week program brings together scholars, students, and practitioners from across the Digital Humanities to learn, collaborate, and explore innovative research methods. Stay tuned: we aim to open the call for participants late February once we finalise the workshops. In the meantime, you can explore the previous school’s offerings and archives here <https://esudh.github.io/esubesancon/>. If you have any questions at this stage, please feel free to contact the ESU steering committee at esudhsteering [@] gmail.com or the local organiser, Fred Spagnoli, at frederic.spagnoli [@] univ-fcomte.fr. With best wishes for the winter holidays, Elisabeth Burr on behalf of Fred Spagnoli(local organiser) & Artjoms Šeļa (steering committee) ______________________________ Prof. Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr Französische, frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft Gründerin und Direktorin der European Summer University in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology" (ESU DH C&T) 2009-2022 (https://esu.fdhl.info/) Präsidentin der European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) 2016-2023 (https://eadh.org/) (Vize-)Präsidentin des Constituent Organisations Board der Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) 2019-2021 (https://adho.org/) Vorsitzende des Wissenschaftlichen Programmkomitees von EADH2020-2021, Krasnoyarsk (https://eadh2020-2021.org/) Universität Leipzig Beethovenstr. 15 D-04107 Leipzig https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/

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Call for Participation: OSACT7 Shared Tasks — LREC 2026
by Sharefah A. Al Ghamdi 26 Dec '25

26 Dec '25

Dear all, Registration is now open for the shared tasks at OSACT7, the 7th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma, Mallorca, Spain (11–16 May 2026). Participating teams will have the opportunity to submit a system paper. Accepted papers, following peer review, will be published in the OSACT 2026 workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology. Shared Tasks 1- QIAS 2026: Questions & Answers in Islamic Studies Assessment Website: https://sites.google.com/view/qias2026/<https://sites.google.com/view/qias2026/> 2- AdabEval 2026: Arabic Politeness Detection Website: https://sites.google.com/view/adabeval2026/home 3- AraSentEval 2026: A Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis and Swapping in Arabic Website: https://ezzini.github.io/AraSentEval/ 4- AraHAHA 2026: Arabic Humour Generation Website: https://sites.google.com/view/arhaha2026/home 5- KSAA 2026: Arabic Speech Dictation with Automatic Diacritisation Website: https://arai.ksaa.gov.sa/sharedTask2026/ We warmly invite researchers and practitioners to participate. Full details, including datasets, evaluation protocols, and timelines, are available on the respective shared task websites. For general information about OSACT7 and workshop participation, please visit the official workshop page: https://osact-lrec.github.io/ Best regards, OSACT7 Organizing Committee ________________________________ Disclaimer: This communication is intended for the above named person and is confidential and / or legally privileged. Any opinion(s) expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of KSU (King Saud University). If it has come to you in error you must take no action based upon it, nor must you print it, copy it, forward it, or show it to anyone. Please delete and destroy the e-mail and any attachments and inform the sender immediately. Thank you. KSU is not responsible for the political, religious, racial or partisan opinion in any correspondence conducted by its domain users. Therefore, any such opinion expressed, whether explicitly or implicitly, in any said correspondence is not to be interpreted as that of KSU. KSU may monitor all incoming and outgoing e-mails in line with KSU business practice. Although KSU has taken steps to ensure that e-mails and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that, in keeping with best business practice, the recipient must ensure they are actually virus free.

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OSACT7: 1st Call for Papers
by El-Haj, Mo 23 Dec '25

23 Dec '25

The 7th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT7) Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 11 May 2026 Co-located with LREC 2026. OSACT7 invites submissions on open-source Arabic language resources and processing tools. The workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and students working in computational linguistics, NLP, and IR, with a strong emphasis on accessibility, reproducibility, and support for underrepresented Arabic varieties. The workshop will feature five shared tasks, alongside regular paper submissions, addressing timely challenges in Arabic NLP. We particularly welcome work on Arabic corpora, language models, and processing technologies, including Large Language Models and Generative AI, dialectal Arabic, and practical tools for real-world applications. Topics include: * Arabic language resources and annotated corpora * Pre-trained & fine-tuned Arabic language models * Dialect identification and translation * Sentiment analysis, text classification, and fake news detection * Core Arabic NLP tasks and processing tools * Crowdsourcing, annotation, & resource creation Submission types (excluding references): * Long papers (up to 8 pages), * Short papers (up to 4 pages,) * Shared task system papers (up to 4 pages). Important dates: * Submission deadline: 18 February 2026 * Notification: 12 March 2026 * Camera-ready: 30 March 2026 * Workshop: 11 May 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/OSACT7/ Best wishes, OSACT7 Organizing Committee: -Hend Al-Khalifa -Mo El-Haj -Saad Ezzini ———— Dr Mo El-Haj Director of NLP @ VinUniversity Reader (Associate Professor) in NLP CECS, VinUniversity, Vietnam SCC, Lancaster University, UK https://elhaj.uk https://arabicnlp.uk<https://arabicnlp.uk/> https://vinnlp.com

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Call for PIs at the ELLIS Institute Finland
by Tiedemann, Jörg 23 Dec '25

23 Dec '25

The ELLIS Institute Finland invites applications for Principal Investigator (PI) positions. Deadline: January 12, 2026 https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2026 Part of this call is a position at the University of Helsinki on Reliable Communicative AI connected to Helsinki-NLP Research topics of interest include: * Development of reliable interactive AI and AI-mediated communication * Robust generative AI across domains and languages * Efficiency and trustworthiness * Explainable AI and ethical/societal aspects of AI development More details about this position are available from https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/pi-positions-2026#12-university-of-helsinki--… ***************************************************************** Jörg Tiedemann Language Technology https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/ University of Helsinki

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PhD Position at SpeechTek research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler: application deadline January 7, 2026
by Daniele Falavigna 22 Dec '25

22 Dec '25

We apologize for the inadvertent multiple submissions Are you motivated to conduct impactful research? Do you want to collaborate with a diverse group of scientists to advance wildlife conservation practices? If so, we invite you to apply to the “WildBotics - Autonomous Sampling with Robotics in the Wild for Nature Conservation” MSCA Doctoral Network (WildBotics - Recruitment <https://www.wildbotics.eu/recruitment>). This innovative program brings together leading European institutions and industry partners to develop autonomous robotic solutions for nature conservation. In particular, you will have the opportunity to work closely with an Italian research group renowned for its long tradition in audio and speech analysis (https://speechtek.fbk.eu/) , applying these methods to ecological monitoring and biodiversity protection. Aim: The research explores AI-driven analysis of soundscapes to detect species and bioevents, focusing on ultrasonic recordings critical for understanding biodiversity and ecosystem health. By automating the analysis of extensive audio data, AI enables faster, efficient tracking of animal populations and ecosystem changes. This approach offers essential tools for conservation, aiding in the preservation of species and habitats, particularly those impacted by human activity or climate change. These sounds, collected by microphones and specialised devices, are crucial for identifying various animal species and understanding ecosystem dynamics. Analytics will support the study of natural soundscape losses, a reflection of declining biodiversity and disrupted ecosystems. Analytics will be based on data filtering, feature extraction and segmentation with CNN/RNN/Transformers models. AI models will be deployed for offline (post-flight) or almost real-time data processing, exploiting on-board GPU capabilities, for field work activities (DC11). Host institution: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy PhD enrolment: University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain Principal / Academic supervisor: A. Brutti (FBK) / D. Gonzalez-Aguilera (USAL) The available 12 PhD topics for the Doctoral Candidates are summarized here <https://www.wildbotics.eu/network/topics>. The PhDs call is centralized by FBK - the project coordinator - and more info is available here <https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offerte_di_lavoro_12_Doctoral_Candidates_to_joi…> . Once you are ready to apply, please submit your candidature here <https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbwMXmh7dVoIHtRXJqwuXaetmmMw16pc09fH…> . The candidature phase will close on January 7th, 23:59 CET. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Giuseppe Daniele Falavigna Fondazione Bruno Kessler Via Sommarive 18 - 38123 Povo - Trento, Italy mail:falavi@fbk.eu - tel:+39(0)461314562 - fax:+39(0)461314591 HomePage: https://speechtek.fbk.eu/people/profile/falavi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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CFP: EvaLatin 2026 at LREC 2026
by Iurescia Federica (federica.iurescia) 22 Dec '25

22 Dec '25

CFP: EvaLatin 2026 - The Fourth Evaluation Campaign of NLP tools for Latin * Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaLatin * Date: Monday, May 11 2026 * Place: co-located with LREC 2026, May 11-16, Palma, Mallorca (Spain) * Submission runs: check task guidelines * Submission technical reports: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LT4HALA2026/ * DESCRIPTION EvaLatin 2026 is the fourth evaluation campaign of NLP tools for Latin. The campaign is designed with the aim of promoting the development of resources and language technologies for the Latin language, and foster collaboration among scholars working on Latin, as well as attracting researchers from different disciplines. EvaLatin 2026 edition focusses on 2 tasks: * Dependency Parsing; * Named Entity Recognition (NER). The dependency parsing task is based on the Universal Dependencies<https://universaldependencies.org/> (UD) framework. No specific training set is released but participants are free to make use of any (kind of) data/resource they consider useful for the task, including the Latin treebanks already available in the UD collection. In this regard, one of the challenges of this task is to understand which treebank (or combination of treebanks) is the most suitable to deal with new test data. Test data will be distributed in the CoNLL-U format with gold tokenization, lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging and morphological annotation. For more details, see the guidelines at the specific section of EvaLatin<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaLatin> webpage. In the NER task, participants are required to develop systems capable of automatically identifying and classifying proper names in provided Classical Latin texts. The goal is to detect the span of the mention and assign it to a pre-defined category. A small sample set (plain text HIPE IOB format) will be made available in advance, together with the guidelines. Test data will be distributed in the same HIPE IOB format with the values for the NER predictions obscured. For more details, see the guidelines at the specific section of EvaLatin<https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/EvaLatin> webpage. * SUBMISSIONS Participants are required to submit their runs using specific email addresses (see the guidelines for each task) and to provide a technical report that should include a brief description of their approach, focusing on the adopted algorithms, models and resources, a summary of their experiments, and an analysis of the obtained results. Technical reports will be included in the proceedings as short papers: the maximum length is 4 pages (excluding references) and they should follow the LREC 2026 official format). Reports will receive a light review (we will check for the correctness of the format, the exactness of results and ranking, and overall exposition). Reports should be submitted using the START submission page of the workshop (https://softconf.com/lrec2026/LT4HALA2026/ ). Reports of the shared tasks are not anonymous. All participants will have the opportunity to present their results at the workshop, as an oral or poster presentation. Participants are allowed to use any approach (e.g. from traditional machine learning algorithms to Large Language Models) and any resource (annotated and non-annotated data, embeddings): all approaches and resources are expected to be described in the systems’ reports. Technical reports should follow the LREC stylesheet, which is available on the LREC 2026 website on the Author’s kit page<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>. * WORKSHOP IMPORTANT DATES * 22 December 2025: guidelines available * Evaluation Window I - Task: Dependency Parsing * 3 February 2026: test data available * 10 February 2026: system results due to organizers * Evaluation Window II - Task: Named Entity Recognition * 12 February 2026: test data available * 19 February 2026: system results due to organizers * 10 March 2026: reports due to organizers * 20 March 2026: short report review deadline * 27 March 2026: camera ready version of reports due to organizers (strict deadline) Best Regards, Federica Iurescia (on behalf of the organizing committee) Federica Iurescia Postdoctoral Researcher LiLa: Linking Latin https://lila-erc.eu/#page-top CIRCSE Research Centre https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html Facoltà di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere Franciscanum Building, 2nd Floor, room 219 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Gemelli 1, 20123 Milan, Italy [http://static.unicatt.it/ext-portale/5xmille_firma_mail_2023.jpg] <https://www.unicatt.it/uc/5xmille>

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